@#3 ... Something this tacky happening on the White House grounds is peak MAGA trash. ...

After Pres Trump took a wrecking ball to The Peoples' House, with no approval ...

This UFC stunt is just another in a series of debasing the Democracy of the United States.

... and, fwiw, I think this win by TX AG Paxton improves TX Rep Talarico's odds.

But is the improvement enough to overcome the inherent Red State nature of Texas?

@#20 ... If there are multiverses then it's already there. In all of them that you theoretically branched off into and already exist in. In which case then you actually never really die. Until all branches die. And branches are infinite. ...

Yup.

My underlying point is that we do not yet have a clue about any of this.

Which may be why religion seems to take a prominent position regarding life-after-death. Religion trying to explain that which we cannot explain.

@#5

The important one of the two cited is SCOTUS.

And SCOTUS has shown itself to be more politically involved, instead of judicially involved, of late.

imo, of course.

One aspect of this election win for Pres Trump ...

How much money might the RNC have to now divert into the Texas Senate race to prop up an, I'll be kind, apparently less than ethical individual?

What other election races across the Country might that money been more beneficial for the RNC to support?

@#9

Forgot to include the link ...

This is not a good trend for Pres Trump ...

2028 is a long way away from here.

So much can change between now and then.

imo, even November 2026 is still too far away to be picking winners and losers.

Regarding November 2026, we need to wait a couple months until July.

Regarding 2028 ... give it a couple years ...

@#2

I do not disagree.

But another aspect of AI that needs to be discussed, imo ...

Prior ~innovations~ in the workforce have mostly been targeting blue-collar labor. That is, eliminating blue-collar jobs.

But AI is looking different.

AI, as it is being moved into the workforce seems to be targeting white-collar labor. That is, eliminating white-collar jobs.

Perhaps that may be a reason why there seems to be such a resistance to AI moving into the workforce?

@#218 ... "Better Red than Democrat" is what Republicans voted for. ...

More from the article ...

... "AI is the most consequential technology of our lifetimes," Zuckerberg said in a memo that he sent to employees, informing them of the cuts. "The companies that lead the way will define the next generation," he added.

The company has not revealed too much detail of the changes in the workforce, but it's clear that jobs focused on AI infrastructure will be protected.

Meta is not alone in announcing cuts. In a blog this month, Cisco said it was cutting 4,000 jobs and Microsoft is looking at inciting employees to take voluntary retirement for the first time.

The Meta reorganization is following the trend that businesses that don't adapt to AI usage will struggle. Earlier this year, PwC US CEO Paul Griggs caused consternation when he suggested that executives who failed to get to grips with AI had a limited future in the company.

While workforces are increasingly dependent on AI as a path to progress, IT departments are not necessarily on top of the game. A Dataiku survey earlier this year revealed that 74% of CIOs were fearful that their career paths were dependent on AI outcomes. ...

Bill Gates, commenting on DOGE's efforts ...

... "The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one." ...

More from the article ...

... The lawsuit follows an intervention by Biden in a separate lawsuit brought by the conservative Heritage Foundation over a FOIA request that sought records from the investigation by former special counsel Robert Hur.

The materials were obtained by the DOJ as part of the special counsel's probe, which ended in February 2024, finding that Biden "willfully retained and disclosed" classified materials but recommending no criminal charges.

Biden's lawsuit seeks to further bolster his demands that the materials not be shared with the conservative think tank or congressional Republicans, citing his right to privacy as well as allegations against DOJ that it is acting unlawfully in seeking an avenue to release the records. ...

... Kennedy wrote in a caption for the clip that he was removing the reptiles from his colleague Dr Mehmet Oz's Florida beach house. ...

Wait, what?

If you live in Florida, snakes are in your house?

Is that a selling point among Florida real estate agents?

@#4 ... The results weren't even close.

Sen. John Cornyn (R) must be pissed. ...

My guess would be that in the longer term, it is the good people of Texas who may become annoyed when they begin to realize that TX AG Paxton will be serving Pres Trump's interests more than their interests.

@#2

So, the original thought of the GOP was not to invite Dems?

... citing the fact that they were only invited on Friday, well after their Republican counterparts were asked to attend. ...

More from the cited article ...

... The event was originally intended for Republican attorneys general, but Vance later extended the invite to Democrats, a person familiar with the situation told CNBC. ...

@#22 ... His putrefactionous corruption is manifesting visibly itself on his hands and neck ...

Yeah, but as I noted in #21, my main concern is the apparent need for a continuing series of cognitive tests.

I am more concerned about mental degradation than physical degradation. I'd be less concerned if there weren't a history of dementia in the the Trump lineage.

The Moon?

Why not Mars or Venus?

Not really a surprise. As I have stated many times, primaries bring out the fringe votes, not the mainstream votes.

November will be interesting.

So, how might candidate Talarico respond to this primary win by TX AG Paxton?

My guess might be a focus upon corruption ...

But I don't live in Texas, so what do I know?

@#8 ... But, you see, they're stupid. ...

Stupid?

I'm not there yet.

Sucked into a cult, yea, maybe I'm there with that aspect.

Intelligent people can be sucked into a cult.

A friend of mine (quite intelligent) is a unabashed MAGA supporter. His main reasoning for what his opinions seem to be are along the lines of, ~because Pres Trump says so.~

More from the article ...

... SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed the Reuters report is wrong. But Musk also said the military drones initially used the commercial Starlink service instead of the government-specific network, in violation of Starlink's terms of service. Musk blamed the violation on the contractor that built the drones for the government.

The Reuters report, based on Pentagon documents and interviews with sources familiar with the pricing talks, said that SpaceX recently asked the military to pay $25,000 for Starshield access on each kamikaze drone.

The Pentagon, which previously paid $5,000 for each connection, objected to the price hike but ultimately agreed to pay it, according to Reuters.

While the $25,000 charge is a monthly fee for the satellite connection provided to a satellite terminal, the terminals are being used with drones that only make one-way trips before hitting targets and detonating on impact.

Starshield is a network for government entities and is based on Starlink technology. Musk wrote in an X post today that the "Reuters article is false." But in the very same post, he seemed to confirm a dispute over how the military used SpaceX satellite technology.

"They made improper use of the Starlink civilian system for military purposes. Direct violation of terms of service," Musk wrote today, seeming to indicate that the military used the commercial Starlink system when it should have been using Starshield. ...

Pres Putin's one-week invasion and takeover of Ukraine did not appear to go as planned.

Now, Pres Putin seems to be backed into a corner, much like Pres Trump and Pres Trump's war with Iran.

Animals backed into a corner tend to be most vicious.

More from the article ...

... The antennae are based, he said, in the heavily militarized territory of Kaliningrad, sandwiched between NATO alliance members Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic coast.

"The occasional interference began with the 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius. Now they have built up the infrastructure and the interference has become systemic, permanent, unending Russian provocation against European security," Kuliesius said.

The Russian embassy in Lithuania's capital Vilnius did not immediately reply to a request for comment, but Moscow has frequently denied such accusations in the past.

A map from the Lithuanian regulator indicated Russia's Global Positioning System falsification could reach across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, most of Poland, and parts of Finland, Sweden and Belarus, as well as the Baltic Sea.

The range had reached 450km, Kuliesius said, which the Lithuanian regulator estimated by analysing disturbances in aviation surveillance ADS-B transmissions.

PAST INCIDENTS

Last year, a Spanish military jet with Defence Minister Margarita Robles onboard experienced a GPS disturbance near Kaliningrad while a plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was jammed en route to Bulgaria.

Estonia and neighbouring Finland have also blamed Russia for jamming GPS navigation devices in the region's airspace. ...

Taxpayer or UFC money?